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I can refer some people too, however I gave one out to someone here (ZigMoose, I think?) and it hasn't been redeemed yet. So yeah...I dunno what's going on with that.  However, the credit isn't just a "here's $25 for referring", they want to make sure they have got a new customer out of the deal and not someone just trying the service. If both the referrer and referee keep their bills paid on time for two months straight, then both will get a $25 credit on their respective bills. If one person doesn't pay on time or just drops it before those two months are up, then the credit will no longer work. Also, you have 30 days after receiving a referral code to actually use it. ZigMoose, if you're reading this, you've got like five days left to use the code I sent you.
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ThermoPhysical posted:
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ThermoPhysical posted:ZigMoose, if you're reading this, you've got like five days left to use the code I sent you. I'm trying man it took Cricket 3 weeks to port my number over and now I'm getting error messages off the referral page.
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Zigmoose posted:I'm trying man it took Cricket 3 weeks to port my number over and now I'm getting error messages off the referral page. A quick chat with customer service should get you sorted I'd think. No?
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Nope, customer service can't find my account. I've had a pretty exceptionally poor experience with Cricket so far; the customer service seems powerless. They put me on a temporary data-less flip phone for two weeks to wait for the district manager to fix my account while porting before just giving up and giving me a new number.
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Jun 18, 2014 23:53
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Zigmoose posted:I'm trying man it took Cricket 3 weeks to port my number over and now I'm getting error messages off the referral page. Did you need the referral code? I think I have an email with that in it.
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Zigmoose posted:Nope, customer service can't find my account. I've heard of this happening before, especially when porting between two AT&T MVNOs. Sorry you had such a hassle. I have a couple emails of "Porting specialists" that might be able to help you if you're still looking for it.
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Cross post from the T-Mobile thread. Thought someone wanting to get T-Mobile prepaid may want one of these:nickutz posted:I was cleaning out a drawer today and found two T-Mobile SIM cards. One Mini SIM and one Micro SIM. Both still eligible to be activated. I was going to throw them away but instead I will mail them for free to whoever wants 'em.
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nickutz posted:Cross post from the T-Mobile thread. Thought someone wanting to get T-Mobile prepaid may want one of these: Just saw online tmo sim cards are on sale for $0.01 again.
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So, I got sick of Cricket and tried porting my number back into TMo prepaid. It said it successfully completed the activation and was porting my number, but I can't do ANYTHING with it. I can't create a My TMobile account, can't add funds, can't make calls or send texts, nothing. I thought I was immediately able to do all of those things once the account was created, and I only had to wait until the port was complete to receive messages or calls. Or am I misremembering?
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IuniusBrutus posted:So, I got sick of Cricket and tried porting my number back into TMo prepaid. It said it successfully completed the activation and was porting my number, but I can't do ANYTHING with it. I can't create a My TMobile account, can't add funds, can't make calls or send texts, nothing. Did you already have a T-Mobile account? When I signed up with T-Mobile for the prepaid plan, I had to wait until my number was completely transferred before I could sign up on their website. You should get some sort of text message once you are able to sign up.
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Someone told me to come here. I'm currently on Tmobile. It's awesome and I wish I could stick with them but I'm moving farther out of town and there's no signal out there. Is Straighttalk on the ATT network good? Will they bitch at me if I use data? Looks like I can get about the same thing I have on Tmobile for the around the same price but with the ATT network. Whereas using ATT would cost me 70 dollars a month.
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cross posting from t-mobile thread.Oneiros posted:Anyone on the $30 nerd plan check out your tethering / personal hotspot. I tried using mine on a whim today and it's working (iPhone 5). No separate tethering data allotment listed on my account, it appears to just be using the normal 5GB. Nexus 5, up to date, nerd plan. Same setup that got a paywall prompt a month ago works fine now.
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Cojawfee posted:Someone told me to come here. I'm currently on Tmobile. It's awesome and I wish I could stick with them but I'm moving farther out of town and there's no signal out there. Is Straighttalk on the ATT network good? Will they bitch at me if I use data? Looks like I can get about the same thing I have on Tmobile for the around the same price but with the ATT network. Whereas using ATT would cost me 70 dollars a month. It was me, I told you to come in here. I didn't wanna poo poo up the Android thread with carrier talk. Some people just really like losing money on contracts whereas others get company phones or huge discounts so whatever, we'll keep our prepaid talk in here. Anyway, how much data do you typically use? That's the main concern. If you know AT&T has good service where you're going. Then you're looking in the right direction, but if you see StraightTalk, and ask "will they bitch at me if I use data?" then apparently you're heard the stories. Yes, they might. Yes, they might throttle you hard for no apparent reason. In place of ST I want to suggest the new Cricket. It's on the AT&T network too, has much better service and most of all, they don't care if you want to burn all your data on Netflix. Prices run like this (with $5 autopay discount and all tax is included): $35/mo Unlimited minutes/SMS and 500mb $45/mo Unllimited minutes/SMS and 2.5gb $55/mo Unlimited minutes/SMS and 5gb Only caveat to this service is capped speeds: 8mb/4mb on LTE/HSPA respectively. To be honest, I haven't even noticed it, everything works when I push the button and loads as quickly as I want it to. I just won't win any bandwidth speed dick measuring competitions But I won't have to deal with the high ping times and network prioritizing I had with ST. Also, Cricket has a good referral plan, $25 for you and the referrer if you stay on for 60 days. I can hook you up as can a few other goons in here who are on Cricket.e: I don't know if you have a family or not, but there's also some pretty good discounts for 3+ lines. SB35 fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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I'm a single male goon, so just one line. I'm currently sitting at .88GB used on my data, so I don't really use much. I'll have to check out Cricket especially if they have some sort of military discount.
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Cojawfee posted:I'm a single male goon, so just one line. I'm currently sitting at .88GB used on my data, so I don't really use much. I'll have to check out Cricket especially if they have some sort of military discount. quote:Will the new Cricket still offer military or friends & family discounts? Can I keep them? Doesn't look like Cricket does Then again, ST doesn't either unless you can pick up cheap refill cards at the PX on base.
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koahi posted:Did you already have a T-Mobile account? No, it'll be a new account. This is annoying as poo poo. I don't even know why I transferred the drat number, only one person uses it for MMS, the rest use my GV number. I've never had a port take more than a few hours before.
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ilkhan posted:cross posting from t-mobile thread. Thirding this, but granted my wife's phone is rooted & running a custom 4.4 ROM. I've noticed there's a "mobile hotspot" category in the T-Mobile app with a 100 MB cap, but it doesn't reflect actual use of your mobile hotspot. I've read reports of it being wildly off - either displaying a vast majority of normal data usage as tethered, or people using a sizeable chunk of their data for tethering only seeing a few MB counted against the hotspot "cap." IuniusBrutus posted:I've never had a port take more than a few hours before. It took my wife's port from Verizon to T-Mobile a couple of days to go through.
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Geoj posted:It took my wife's port from Verizon to T-Mobile a couple of days to go through. I guess it varies, my port from Verizon to T Mobile took a couple hours.
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Geoj posted:Thirding this, but granted my wife's phone is rooted & running a custom 4.4 ROM. I can get Google search results, but as soon as I click a link I get nothing. Anyone else getting this behavior?
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26 hours and still no progress with my port from Cricket to TMo prepaid. My cricket account still shows active and everything!
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IuniusBrutus posted:26 hours and still no progress with my port from Cricket to TMo prepaid. My cricket account still shows active and everything! Call T-Mo support. At this point the port got botched in the system and you'll need to have them re-initiate it. Happened to me going from Verizon to T-Mobile - a combination of putting my Verizon account number in wrong (nothing said to omit the hyphen,) and my new phone not being issued a temporary number caused it to get stuck. After calling them and getting it sorted out, everything was ported over within 2 hours.
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Jun 20, 2014 21:48
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Make sure you call their number transfer specialist line, and not their general customer service line.
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koahi posted:Make sure you call their number transfer specialist line, and not their general customer service line. Geoj posted:If anyone else needs it, the number the customer support representative on 611 gave me for number porting was 1-877-789-3106
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Thinking of upgrading from the nokia 521 to the lg black optimus f6, but kinda thinking "enh... I dunno". Pros - Newer phone better camera flash android will presumably be able to get emojis again, which makes sexually harassing the girlfriend with text messages more entertaining cons - will lose nokia radio (which is awesome) battery life is probably shittacular compared to the nokia less memory than the nokia Newegg has a sale on it this weekend, where it's on sale for 105$. I have a budget of about 200$ and use tmobile (on the dork plan), so if someone knows of a better/more awesome phone, lemme know.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Thinking of upgrading from the nokia 521 to the lg black optimus f6, but kinda thinking "enh... I dunno". Moto G LTE?
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"d[-.- posted:b" post="431362461"] This. Or the regular old Moto G 16gb.
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"d[-.- posted:b" post="431362461"] Anyone have a trip report on these? My wife's GS4 is having SIM card disconnect issues that have persisted after changing out the SIM/SD tray and we're starting to look for affordable replacement options. Her concern is the camera will be lovely at 5 MP vs the 13 on the GS4.
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Ah. Moto g lte seems to be the choice. Apparently the moto g doesn't have an expandable memory card slot, which just boggles the mind. Now I just gotta decide if it's worth spending the 220$~ for the moto lte version... Appreciate the help guys 
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Brother picked up the Moto G LTE and likes it, but I havent' touched it myself. Apparently it doesn't work well with Class 10 or UHS microSD cards right now, but Moto apparently knows and will fix in an update.
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Has anyone else here had problems with MMS on AT&T GoPhone? I have tried two different APN settings: Name: ATT APN: wap.cingular Proxy: none Port: none Username and password are blank Server: none Mmsc: http://mmsc.cingular.com Mms proxy: wireless.cingular.com Mms port: 80 Mcc: 310 Mnc: 410 Authentication type: none APN type: default and: APN: pta Proxy: Port: Username: Password: Server: MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net MMS Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net MMS port: 80 MCC: 310 MNC: 410 Authentication type: APN type: internet And also a third that just uses "Phone" for the APN, but is otherwise identical to the second one. My data connection works fine on LTE for either of those APNs, I just can't send or receive MMS messages to save my life...most of the time. Sometimes, out of the blue, it will just work. The last successful one i sent was Sunday night. Since then, the ones I try to send fail, and the ones people send me have a notice saying they failed, and to click to download, and even if I wait till I'm an an area with full LTE, it will just hang at downloading and then after several minutes, repeat the message that the MMS failed to download.
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Hey, I'm about to start the process of switching over to cricket. During check out it asked me for my phone number for transferring the number, but I obviously don't want it to start transferring my number until I get the sim card, I would like to still be able to use my phone for the 2 days it would take to ship. Does any one know if they actually going to try to transfer my number immediately? (Which I think would be pretty dumb, so I think its unlikey, but I kind of need my phone...)' edit: Haha, I clearly can't read, it tells me the answer to this on the same page!!! GenericGirlName fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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GenericGirlName posted:Hey, I'm about to start the process of switching over to cricket. During check out it asked me for my phone number for transferring the number, but I obviously don't want it to start transferring my number until I get the sim card, I would like to still be able to use my phone for the 2 days it would take to ship. Does any one know if they actually going to try to transfer my number immediately? (Which I think would be pretty dumb, so I think its unlikey, but I kind of need my phone...)' Yep. You're good. Won't transfer till you activate. Do you have a referral? That'll get you a free $25 credit. PM me or another Cricket goon if you need one. You can redeem it anytime in your first 30 days.
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Geoj posted:Her concern is the camera will be lovely at 5 MP vs the 13 on the GS4.
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Allaniis posted:The camera is not great, if it's anything similar to the regular Moto G's camera. That's what I figured. Crisis averted though, a friend's wife upgraded to a GS5 and gave me her old GS4. Hopefully it won't have the same problem...
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As an FYI, Straight Talk has a data usage meter if you text 'usage' to 611611. I've found it mostly agrees with my iPhone's but lags by a day or so.
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For Ting, can I simply go to a Sprint retail/reseller store and ask for a UICC/SIM for a Nexus 5? Or do I have to order the one from Ting directly?
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Will someone send me a referral to Cricket?
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Afterlith posted:Will someone send me a referral to Cricket? Sure, I'll need your e-mail. I'll shoot you an e-mail asking for your real name (won't ask for it here) as Cricket will want that + your e-mail.
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Afterlith posted:Will someone send me a referral to Cricket? Responded to your PM. Me or ThermoPhysical, whichever you prefer is fine.
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